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D-Index
33
Citations
10399
World Ranking
5529
National Ranking
330

Jens Boch publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jens Boch sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 72 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Jens Boch D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jens Boch sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Breaking the Code of DNA Binding Specificity of TAL-Type III Effectors

    Jens Boch;Heidi Scholze;Sebastian Schornack;Angelika Landgraf

  • Xanthomonas AvrBs3 Family-Type III Effectors: Discovery and Function

    Jens Boch;Ulla Bonas

  • Insights into Genome Plasticity and Pathogenicity of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria Revealed by the Complete Genome Sequence

    Frank Thieme;Ralf Koebnik;Thomas Bekel;Carolin Berger

  • Regulation of selected genome loci using de novo-engineered transcription activator-like effector (TALE)-type transcription factors

    Robert Morbitzer;Patrick Römer;Jens Boch;Thomas Lahaye

  • Five phylogenetically close rice SWEET genes confer TAL effector‐mediated susceptibility to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

    Jana Streubel;Céline Pesce;Mathilde Hutin;Ralf Koebnik

  • Complete genome of the mutualistic, N2-fixing grass endophyte Azoarcus sp. strain BH72

    Andrea Krause;Adarsh Ramakumar;Daniela Bartels;Federico Battistoni

  • Identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato genes induced during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana

    Unknown

  • Colonization of rice leaf blades by an African strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae depends on a new TAL effector that induces the rice nodulin-3 Os11N3 gene.

    Yanhua Yu;Jana Streubel;Sandrine Balzergue;Antony Champion

  • Transcriptional activators of human genes with programmable DNA-specificity.

    René Geiβler;Heidi Scholze;Simone Hahn;Jana Streubel

  • Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.

    Patrick Römer;Patrick Römer;Sabine Recht;Sabine Recht;Tina Strauß;Tina Strauß;Janett Elsaesser;Janett Elsaesser

  • TAL Effectors Are Remote Controls for Gene Activation

    Unknown

  • Targeted promoter editing for rice resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae reveals differential activities for SWEET14‐inducing TAL effectors

    Servane Blanvillain-Baufumé;Maik Reschke;Montserrat Solé;Florence Auguy

  • Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrPtoB suppresses basal defence in Arabidopsis

    Marta de Torres;John W. Mansfield;Nina Grabov;Ian R. Brown

  • TAL effectors--pathogen strategies and plant resistance engineering.

    Jens Boch;Ulla Bonas;Thomas Lahaye

  • The Pseudomonas syringae avrRpt2 gene product promotes pathogen virulence from inside plant cells.

    Zhongying Chen;Andrew P. Kloek;Jens Boch;Fumiaki Katagiri

  • TALE and TALEN genome editing technologies

    Unknown

  • AnnoTALE: bioinformatics tools for identification, annotation and nomenclature of TALEs from Xanthomonas genomic sequences

    Jan Grau;Maik Reschke;Annett Erkes;Jana Streubel;Jana Streubel

  • Computational Predictions Provide Insights into the Biology of TAL Effector Target Sites

    Jan Grau;Annett Wolf;Maik Reschke;Ulla Bonas

  • TAL effector-DNA specificity.

    Unknown

  • Characterization of AvrBs3-like effectors from a Brassicaceae pathogen reveals virulence and avirulence activities and a protein with a novel repeat architecture.

    Sabine Kay;Jens Boch;Ulla Bonas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulla Bonas
Ulla Bonas Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Thomas Lahaye
Thomas Lahaye University of Tübingen
Sebastian Schornack
Sebastian Schornack University of Cambridge
Ralf Koebnik
Ralf Koebnik University of Montpellier
Boris Szurek
Boris Szurek Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Erhard Bremer
Erhard Bremer Philipp University of Marburg
Alice C. McHardy
Alice C. McHardy Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Marie-Agnès Jacques
Marie-Agnès Jacques University of Angers
Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University

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